About Gadling
Gadling is the world's biggest travel blog, written and edited by passionate travelers and writers. Covering all aspects of travel from around the world, Gadling is the premiere source for everything from travel news to travel tips, from budget travel to adventure travel -- and for everything in between. You can subscribe to our RSS feed here.
Grant Martin
Editor-in-chief (email)
Grant Martin is the editor in chief of Gadling.com. Specializing in consumer travel, the airline industry and logistics, his travels have taken him far and wide around the world and he now contributes to Gadling from Chicago, Illinois.
Scott Carmichael
Executive Editor (email)
Scott Carmichael is an expert on any gadget that can help make a trip more enjoyable or productive. Having traveled close to 4 million miles, Scott knows his away around most major airports, and is always eager to share his knowledge and experience with people.
Mike Barish
Blogger
Mike Barish is a freelance travel writer and regular contributor to Gadling.com. Never one to miss an opportunity to poke fun at the lighter side of travel, he injects his unique sense of humor into all of his work. He shares his travel tips on his blog at www.mikebarish.com and on Twitter (@mikebarish). He is an expert in the SkyMall catalog and specializes in soft adventure and self-directed travel. He is based in New York City.
Kraig Becker
Blogger
Kraig is a world traveler who enjoys visiting and trekking through remote, off the grid, places. Based out of Austin, TX, he writes about mountaineering, polar exploration, adventure travel, and other outdoor pursuits.
Catherine Bodry
Blogger
Catherine Bodry took her first trip abroad as an undergraduate, and has lived in France and Ireland and traveled to three dozen countries. Her writing has been published in several Lonely Planet guidebooks as well as Fodor's, Trail Runner Magazine and UK MSN Travel.
Leigh Caldwell
Blogger
Leigh Caldwell has worked in reporting, editing and management positions in radio, newspapers, and television. She's now a freelance writer based in Florida. During her 20-year journalism career, Leigh has covered everything from American Idol to presidential campaigns to strawberry farming. Her contributions to 9/11 coverage netted awards from the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, the National Press Photographers Association and the Society for News Design. Leigh still has not found the key to sleeping through the night after a 2-year stint as executive producer at a 24-hour TV news channel, so she spends her time trying out various hotel beds around the world to find the answer. Perhaps because of her proximity to a certain famous mouse's house, Leigh has made theme parks one of her specialties, and she's the woman behind the blog at ThemeParkMom.com.
Amy Chen
Blogger
Amy Chen is an associate online editor at Frommer’s. She was previously an assistant editor at Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel magazine. During this time, the magazine was a finalist for a 2008 American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) General Excellence award. In 2009, BudgetTravel.com was nominated for a Webby as one of the world's top four travel websites, losing to Kayak. Before Budget Travel, Amy earned her stripes as a fact-checker at LIFE magazine and VIA, the AAA travel publication based in San Francisco. In a past life, Amy covered cops and city government as a daily newspaper reporter in the Bay Area. Now based in New York City, she writes for Real Simple’s Money Wise section and will specialize in covering budget travel for Gadling. As Amy has learned, traveling on a budget doesn’t mean you have to sleep in a flea-infested hostel—though she has done that, too..
David Farley
Blogger
David Farley is an eater, imbiber, traveler, and writer. While on the road, he's been known to eschew a museum for street food, a show for a salt-of-the-earth restaurant. He's the author of "An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest Town" (Penguin/Gotham Books, 2009) and co-editor of "Travelers' Tales Prague and the Czech Republic: True Stories" (Travelers' Tales, 2006). He has blogged for World Hum and currently contributes to the New York Times' travel section blog, "In Transit." His writing also appears in Travel Leisure. Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, Slate.com and the travel sections of The New York Times and The Washington Post. He teaches travel writing at New York University and Gotham Writers' Workshop.
Don George
Blogger
National Geographic has called Don George a “legendary travel writer and editor.” Don has been Global Travel Editor for Lonely Planet Publications, Founder and Editor of Salon.com's acclaimed and groundbreaking travel site, “Wanderlust,” and Travel Editor at the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle. Don has written the best-selling how-to book about travel writing, The Lonely Planet Guide to Travel Writing. He has also edited six award-winning anthologies of travel tales, including The Kindness of Strangers, Tales from Nowhere, and By the Seat of My Pants. He has published more than 1000 articles in magazines and newspapers around the globe, including Conde Nast Traveler, Travel Leisure, National Geographic Traveler, the Los Angeles Times Magazine and Islands. He has received dozens of awards for his writing and editing, including the Society of American Travel Writers Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year Award and the Pacific Asia Travel Association's Gold Award for Best Travel Article of the Year. He appears frequently on NPR, CNN, and other TV and radio outlets. He is co-founder and chairman of the annual Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference, and is a highly sought-after conference keynote speaker.
Stephen Greenwood
Blogger
In 2008, Stephen Greenwood graduated from the School of Theater, Film & Television at UCLA with a concentration in documentary film. Immediately after graduation, he spent 5 months in Tanzania working on a short documentary, followed by 6 months of post production in Hong Kong. He is currently based in California.
Aaron Hotfelder
Blogger
Having lived on four continents, Aaron Hotfelder clearly isn't afraid to take a long, deep soak in another culture. He loves to photograph and write about his travels, and he cites Ecuador and Morocco as his favorite destinations.
Tom Johansmeyer
Blogger
Tom Johansmeyer is a New York-based freelance travel writer and blogger, focusing on unusual and up-market travel. In addition to Gadling, Tom contributes to Luxist, BloggingStocks and DailyFinance. His work has also appeared in Boston magazine New York magazine, British GQ and The Atlantic, among others.
Jeremy Kressmann
Blogger
Jeremy Kressmann is a freelance travel writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Jeremy first caught the travel bug as an exchange student to Costa Rica in 1998, kicking off more than a decade of globetrotting that has taken him to over 25 countries on 6 continents. His current travel obsessions include Catalan tapas, 1970's Nigerian Funk music and Japanese cell phone culture.
Sean McLachlan
Blogger
Sean McLachlan spent ten years working as an archaeologist before becoming a full time writer specializing in travel and history. He has been to more than 25 countries and divides his time between Madrid, Oxford, and Missouri.
Laurel Miller
Blogger
Laurel Miller is a food and adventure travel writer and cooking instructor newly relocated to Seattle, after two years of surfing couches in Colorado and the Bay Area. She grew up on a California ranch, which is what inspired her to educate people about sustainable agriculture. She is a contributing editor to culture magazine, and also writes for Outside, Sunset, American Cowboy, Edible Seattle, Edible Aspen, and Seattle’s The Stranger. She was recently named a Top 3 finalist at the Edible Communities EDDY Awards for her profile of a Washington state turkey farm, which even she admits is an odd thing to receive professional recognition for. From 2001 to 2009, she wrote the popular “Fork in the Road” food travel column for The Oakland Tribune/BANG Newspapers. Despite her tendency to acquire tropical and gastrointestinal diseases, Laurel lives to travel and when she’s not freelancing, she can be found in various developing nations indulging her street food obsession. Her Dana Designs backpack and supply of Cipro will have to be pried from her cold, dead fingers. Learn more about Laurel at SustainableKitchen.com.
Darren Murph
Blogger
Darren Murph is an Associate Editor for the quintessential technology blog on the web, Engadget. His work has also been published in Popular Science. When he's not cracking open the latest gadget or gizmo, he's traveling the globe with his wife -- who is an esteemed photographer, if he may say so himself -- and sharing travel tips, undiscovered gems and other must-see wonders of the world with the fine readers of Gadling. He's currently based in Raleigh, North Carolina and is feverishly working on planning his next trip.
Melanie Nayer
Blogger
Melanie Nayer is a travel writer with a focus on hotels and luxury travel around the world. She's contributes travel articles to various publications including The Boston Globe, The Washington Times, The New York Daily News, SingleMindedWomen.com, Medical Travel Today, Cheapflights.com and various in-flight magazines. Melanie has been a guest on national radio shows and has appeared in interviews on CNN.com and ABC.com. She is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers.
Heather Poole
Blogger
Heather Poole is a flight attendant for a major US carrier. She lives in California and is based in New York, so if there's one thing she knows, besides bad food and uncomfortable seats, it's what it's like -- really like -- to work in a germ infested flying tube at 35,000 feet. Besides Gadling, her work can be found in the 2010 Best of Women's Travel Writing anthology. She's also in the process of working on a book of essays written in chronological order of her life as a flight attendant scheduled to be released by Harper Collins during the summer of 2011.
Annie Scott
Blogger
Annie Scott is a freelance writer/editor in New York City. Writing for AOL websites including StyleList, Gadling, Luxist, Slashfood, and Holidash, and editing for Tonic.com, she has covered everything from New York Fashion Week to the F1 Grand Prix in Singapore, and interviewed everyone from oceanographer and explorer Sylvia Earle to fashion world darling Tim Gunn. Annie specializes in travel, luxury, style, honest product reviews, humor, and living the good life wherever you go. She maintains a personal blog called The Annie Scott Experience.
Karen Walrond
Blogger
Karen Walrond is a writer and a photographer in Houston, Texas. In addition to having traveled around the world (with still more of the planet to go), she is the creative mind behind the photoblog Chookooloonks.com, and the author of the series "Through the Gadling Lens" on Gadling.com, helping holidaymakers everywhere get the most out of their cameras.
Kent Wien
Blogger
Part of a family of three generations of brothers who have been flying passengers since 1924, Kent Wien is a Boston-based pilot for a major airline with nearly twenty years experience as a domestic and international pilot. Originally from Alaska, he enjoys writing about specific flights while using video and photography to capture a glimpse of life behind a cockpit door. He currently writes the Cockpit Chronicles and Plane Answers features for Gadling and covers airline and aviation subjects in between.
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